SPORTS DIGEST || YSU softball earns 4 All-Horizon honors

YSU softball earns 4 All-Horizon honors

INDIANAPOLIS

Four Youngstown State softball players earned All-Horizon League recognition and Maddi Lusk was named Co-Freshman of the Year after a vote of the league’s head coaches.

Junior Hannah Lucas was named to the All-Horizon League First-Team, while senior Brittney Moffatt, junior Cali Mikovich andn Lusk were all named to the All-Horizon League Second-Team. Lusk also earned a spot on the All-Freshman Team.

Lucas leads the Penguins with an overall batting average of .338 and 20 stolen bases. In league play, Lucas ranked second with 32 hits, third with a .416 batting average 12 stolen bases and a .505 on-base percentage and tied for third with 22 runs scored.

Moffatt, who batted. 350 in Horizon League play, led the league with 27 RBIs in conference play and drove in a team-high 33 runs overall. During Youngstown State’s 12-game winning streak in league play, Moffatt batted a team-high .524 (22-for-42) with a double, home run, seven runs scored and 21 RBIs. She also posted an OPS of 1.172.

Mikovich had six doubles, 14 runs scored and 12 RBIs against league foes.

Lusk leads the Horizon League in innings pitched (185.1) and ranks second with 15 wins and 133 strikeouts. Lusk also batted .301 in league play with seven doubles and 11 RBIs.

YSU baseball team falls to Pitt in 10 innings

PITTSBURGH

Pittsburgh scored on a wild pitch in the bottom of the 10th inning to beat the Youngstown State baseball team 3-2 on Wednesday at Charles L. Cost Field.

Seven YSU pitchers combined to hold the Panthers to just six hits. Pitt’s run in the 10th came when the only ball put in play in the inning was on a sacrifice bunt. The Penguins walked just three batters in the game, but two of them came in the 10th.

Lorenzo Arcuri led the Penguins with three hits and three stolen bases, and Trey Bridis doubled twice. YSU outhit Pitt 9-6. YSU had baserunners in six of the first seven innings and in eight innings overall.

YSU will host Northern Kentucky in a Horizon League doubleheader on Saturday at 1 p.m.

Crew SC loses in final minute to Toronto FC

columbus

Tosaint Ricketts scored two late goals to help Toronto FC beat the Columbus Crew 2-1 on Wednesday night for their club-record fifth straight victory.

Toronto (6-1-4) won its second straight road match and avenged its only loss of the season. Columbus (5-5-1) had won six of its last eight home games dating to last season.

Ricketts, who entered as a sub in the 40th minute, tied it with a header in the 81st minute. Raheem Edwards chipped it from the edge of the 18-yard box and Ricketts headed it down to the lower-left corner. Nine minutes later, a deflected cross fell to Ricketts’ feet at the far post for an easy finish.

Columbus opened the scoring in the 28th minute when Federico Higuain scored on a penalty kick for his fourth goal of the season. Ola Kamara was dragged down in the penalty area by Eriq Zavaleta, and Higuain calmly chipped it up the middle.

Wife of Chris Berman dies in car wreck

woodbury, conn.

The wife of longtime ESPN broadcaster Chris Berman has died in a traffic crash in Connecticut.

State police say 67-year-old Katherine Ann Berman, of Cheshire, was one of two victims in the two-vehicle crash at about 2:15 p.m. Tuesday in Woodbury. The other victim was 87-year-old Edward Bertulis, of Waterbury.

ESPN President John Skipper said in a statement the death is a “devastating tragedy and difficult to comprehend” and pledged to give Chris Berman “the love and support he will surely need in this hour.”

Police say Kathy Berman’s car struck the rear of Bertulis’ SUV and both veered off the road. Berman’s car went down an embankment and overturned in a body of water.

Bertulis’ vehicle struck a utility pole and landed on its roof.

Staff/Wire reports